Regarding your comments on Israel and Palestine, both the Palestinian and Israelis, in truth, are ill-equipped by their past for either love or peace. They have been fighting so long, so furiously that they don't know how to be peaceful. In such ceaseless bloodletting, Israelis are often targets of simple opportunity. It is always a constant threat, a constant possibility. The Israelis are permanently in a state of war. They will learn slowly and painfully and they are quite capable of killing each other in the process. They have become entangled in the past. and their lives are twisted together like a skein of a rope. They have no other choice open to them but to move forward. Everyone wants peace, the terrorists by victory, the clergy by power, the politicians by subtle compromises and people like me, by wisdom, love and compromise. Unfortunately, the last three points are rarely considered by some of those involved.